<i>Bravo !</i>

1 April 2009, 18:00 PM

Our Correspondent, Rangpur

A schoolteacher risked his life to save a girl student who was about to commit suicide under a running train on the Teesta Bridge. The incident took place at about 5:30 pm on Tuesday when a local train entered the bridge from Kaunia. Earlier, gatemen on both ends of the bridge closed the gates at about 5:20 pm so that no vehicle can enter it. But a girl student of class IX of Kaunia High School went to the middle of the bridge evading eyes of gatemen. She stood there like a statue shutting her eyes with two hands. Several hundred people who witnessed the scene shouted at the girl asking her to leave the railway track. As the train was nearing fast, Akbar Ali, a religious teacher of Kaunia High School, who was waiting to cross the bridge, saw the girl and immediately rushed to her and pushed her out of the track just four seconds before the possible mishap. Later, he took the girl to his Kaunia house and contacted her parents who admitted that their daughter had love affair with someone whom they disliked.